My thoughts to this point!

I felt that because I was almost starting again with the left hand although I had all the relevant information, knowledge and skills it was a good way of just going back to basics.
Drawing what I liked writing how I felt and it become true, honest and meant more than just scribbles.
In some ways its almost going backwards but I felt it was necessary to do so and it made me think about how I could use these thought processes within my design.
So combining what I was doing before and the way I am working now.

The best way for me to understand this was to create a thought diagram of things that were important to how I create; why I create; things I liked; things that were important to me.
I then just wrote all the words that stuck out more on to pieces of paper and redefining them to a selection of words which I felt were important to my design process.
It was at this point I realised that I was not so good at making decisions before of what to do and what to do next .

I remembered a workshop that I went to about a year ago by the eco-design expert Rob Holdway who runs the eco-consultancy Giraffe.
We did a series of tasks where we were given dice to make the decisions for us. They created restrictions and we had to work with them within the group that we were in.

The dice was obviously created to the company’s design criteria but it made me wonder if I could some how create something of similar idea for myself to use but with my design criteria???
So I had someone help by making the dice and I put together some of the words I had refined from my thought diagram.




I decided that i would need at least 3 dice:-

1. “Time” How long I would need to create something.
2. “Function” why would I make it/for what reason is it for
3. “Material” what material would I use to create it

But then I decided to add one more:
4. “Process” how would I make it/create it.

Now this is just an idea and for me to see if it works I would need to roll the dice and record the outcomes, as it is difficult for me at the moment to create something. But I think for my own design ideas and development this would be an extremely useful experiment and could change?

To be continued . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"The wrong hand"


The wrong hand sketch book is becoming a fresh way of thinking for me.
Even though it is a venerable experience i am trying to get the most from it and the strange thing for me is the fact that it is excepted for what it is.
In some ways i am actually enjoying drawing and learning from the left hand
"The wrong hand".
Although i will say that it is making me realize more so the importance of time.
Just realising how long things take and how i have to plan my days around the things which i am restricted to do.
I have just become very aware of just how long things can take.

This is the front cover of "The wrong hand" First sketch book.

Reflection. . . . .

After reflecting over the past two weeks after braking my wrist I feel I am questioning. . . . . . . . .

I feel that by using the wrong hand I feel in some sense that i need to almost relearn things such as how to hold the pen, how to draw and for it to learn all the things which the other hand would normally do.

I am finding that I feel more vulnerable and questioning "why"

I feel I do this anyway but it is more apparent than usual maybe because I feel as if I have a giant egg timer haunting me, stalking me, that I should make and do more.

But I worry . . . . . . .
I worry if my work would be appreciated or even understood, but then my work is personal, ideas come from personal experience; jouneys; so "why" does this matter?

"Why" don't I just make a decision? This is what I am going to do; this is Why and this is how and when!

I think in reflection my "Wrong Hand" sketch books are key to me understanding "why"

The sketchbooks Contain my vulnerability in a way that shows truth and reality in a child like manner, yet it is an outcome of something which has the potential to become things as well.

The Fact that people appreciate the "wrong hand" work without fully understanding it makes me think that i worry far to much about creating and doing.
I think I need to work out a way to tell myself what to do. I don't mean this in the way of working to a brief.
I feel I need to work out what it is that's important to me, for the way I work and why then from this I can work out a selection criteria.

So I am going to take some time to list and map these things again.

The Tar Man

I found this a long time ago and have always been interested in Biagi's work but not really understood why until now. I think that it has a lot to do with how i am revisiting childhood feelings since i have broken my wrist.
The reason why I revisited Biagi's work was because my drawings kind of reminded me of some of the object's.
This could have been at first because i have been using lots of different size black pens for my drawing which look similar to his black tar creations.
But then looking at some of Biagi's Objects I think that it is more deeper.
His work represents many things, what stands out more to me is the sense of childhood innocence that has been encaptured by this powerful medium.
By using the ultimate symbol of childhood innocence "The Teddy Bear" it immediately sparks a reaction which most can relate to.
When I look at the images of his work it evokes a sense of uncomfortable childhood feelings that I just want to be protected from.
Feelings which I have been experiencing after braking my wrist, feelings which I feel when I am trying to write or draw with the wrong hand; vulnerability; memories and rawness of experience that takes me back to when I was a child.
And then the need to feel protected. . . . . . . . .

" The real experience lies within the journey "

I think this is too true, the real experience is within the journey, especially for my self at the moment I just feel that I need to embrace it.

www.mattiabiagi.com

"my Journey"

The Wrong Hand

"My Journey"

The Wrong Hand



I found it hard to start using my left hand as it was so unnatural to me. Every day things which i would normally use my right hand for i now had to use the left I feel like I am doing things backward, and that the left hand was trying to copy what the right would normally do as if it was a mirrored response.
These are some of the things I have been trying to do, but can't quite get the hang of with the wrong hand!

But . . . . . . . .

The Wrong Hand

The Wrong Hand

"The Broken hand"


This is how my hand looked in the X-ray
this is not the X-ray but an example of how it looked.

The Wrong Hand

"My Journey"
The Wrong Hand

This is my Journey recorded through notes and drawings by using the wrong hand. Since falling and braking my right wrist on Saturday the 25th October i have decided to adapt and use the wrong hand to communicate through notes and drawings firstly how i get through each day/week.
This is the beginning of what i have recorded of the first week.

They do say “Art Heals”; I see craft and what I do as an art form.
Walking does help, being healthy and understanding a healthy balance
between personal well-being, as well as my creative well being.
Finding a balance between design creativity and design production is
important!


Often when the human body moves the mind moves and walking often
brings my ideas to the forefront. “My Journeys” that I take are the inspiration, the journey becomes a concept that then becomes and adds to an end product.

"My Journey"

I have been inspired by an artist named Peter Bodenham, a visual artist who
uses a varied way to work combining various materials and processes to

comprehend his images, sculptures and make site installations.


“walk and it will be solved” 2008

The way we interpret nature and humanities influence can use
interdisciplinary practice which some how is powered and framed By “The Journey” both physical and imagined.
“walk and it will be solved”

I would like to think that the process that I take is both personal and
universal. It reflects the phenomenological experience of the rural
landscape and the roots through to the urban landscape, natural and
unnatural.
Documenting the “Journey” as it develops and understanding the structure
of experiences as they present themselves to me makes the experience a
momentous occurrence.


I can incorporate these documentations into my design theories and
methodologies, using them within the creating process as well as my designs, which as a result adapt their own theories of meaning.
The documenting process has become an explanation for my design
development; building a library of information from all “Journeys” that I
take, this becomes part of the qualitative approach that I have adapted to
use within my practice.

www.peterbodenham.co.uk

The 8 Of us exhibition
2008

Images of The 8 of us exhibition, the half way point for myself and the end exhibition for others.

Unisex Jewellery

Unisex Jewellery Experiments

I decided to show the jewellery pieces a bit differently, so i used a male model instead of a female one as i thought that it puts the idea of it being unisex across clearly.
The pieces them selves are experiments of how my jewellery pieces would look like, they take on what ever shape that the person wearing it wants. they can be twisted turned worn around the neck or arund the arm and so on.
So i am trying to make them as diverse as they can be whit the shapes that i have created.
I think that i am happy with the pieces which i have created considering that they are only experiments and prototypes.
I am going to continue developing the idea of making jewellery pieces.

At the moment i like to call them "Twisted neck pieces"

Al things made with video tape, each with its own information on it, each with a story, each containing there own individual information.

The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe
this is the film the lion the witch and the wardrobe, made in to a thread , readdy to use.

Playing with Photoshop . . . . . . . . .